New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-31
THE DAKOTA HAIR VEST.

A Glorious Result. --EOrtyN Million
Bushels of Wheat. Thirty
Million Bushels Of Corn.
From the Pioneer Press.
The Dakota harvest is over That is the
small grains have been gathered, leaving
the corn and root crops to follow. But
already the predictions of the PIONEER PRESS,
made through weeks of opposing reports,
have been more than verified The cropis
not only the largest ever harvested in Da-
kota, but it is larger than the most ,sanguine
even anticipated. The total yield Of wheat
is estimated at forty millions of bushels;
corn thirty millions, and otnertcrops in pro-
portion The hay crop has. never been SO
| large, the grass never SO luxuriant Now
what does all this mean? 1T means season
of unexampled agricultural prosperity for
the territory. It means the settlement of
old scores, the wiping out Of old debts. 1t
means an influx of emigrants which is
likely to be larger in thenext twelve months
than ever before. Gt,means a growth and de-
| velopment beside which our past history,
| wonderful as it is, will pale. But:sa good
crop is not SO unusual in Dakota that the re-
suits from this years yield should be
so wonderful No; Dakota never
has registered a failure in crops
that was anything like total, and
in no state in the Union'ist the farmer so sure
OF yield, taking one year after another. It
is not that which makes the present year
prolific of Important ntconsequences It is the
comparison which the situation invites Da-
kota is surrounded with failures. Agricult-
ural disaster seems tocreep up to her very
doors on the east;andstop short on the line.
| Beginning in the dar*East the burning drouth
has continued through Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
| uois, Wisconsin, Iowa land even Minnesota
touching also with its'withering breath the
| reg ions ana states bordering on those men
toned This belt has been regarded as an
agricultural paradise. That SO immense a
region should be covered by one years dis
| aster is remarkable and "also dscouraging.
That Dakota, while passing through SINH
lar season last year, raised crop which in
most states would have been regarded as
enormous and this year eclipses all previous
records, is proof positive that here, it any
where, the husbandman assure of his reward.
The farmers OF the afflicted states.east of us
will SO look at it, They will examine the re-
turns and they will see that all in all there is
not such region for diversified farming
on this continent as ;Dakota Wheat, oats,
rye, barley, fax, are an almost certain crop
in all parts of the Sterritory Corn is as sure
south of the forty sixth parallel as in Iowa,
and the immense yield this year from Yank-
ton to Fargo shows that itucan be cultivated
TO advantage in allSparts of Dakota Wheat
is surer in the north than in Russia or India
and the groaning elevators from Pembina to
Mitchell testify to its universaIity Pota-
toes, beets, tlrnips, almost every variety of
rooJ crops and peas and, beans thrive so
smarvelously that 10, tell the truth is to in
vite disbelief "A year. ago Montana was re-
garded as the region par excellence for
! stock. y To-day hesds Of cattle from that ter
rltory are being brought into Dakota, where
hay is abundant, where shelter can be pro
v1ded, where they aare hundreds of miles
nearer market, and where, even last
winter, the seNerest known for many
years, the loss was smaller than in
almost any state O. Sthe Union. Sheep
raising is demonstrated a wonderful
success in the territory and swine thrive far
better than in the damp regions to the south
Now these are facts. They need to be pom
dered on, and they will be by the thousands
in the over-populated EEast desirous of Sc
curing homes Dakota has it's disadvantages
! Wood is scarce, but forests are growing on
almost every homestead. The weather is
keen, but the blizzard bssgaboo has lost its
terrors, and the settaer finds that with the
| same provision for comfort, he is as indie
pendent of wind and fr0st here as elsewhere
Come and Look at it! Sse the opportunities
| offered to obtain cheap land and Judge for
yourselves if Dakota omght, not to become
| your home. In view OF the! possibilities Of
this region new meaning is given to the
Injunction Of Horace tGreeley: $50
/ West, young man! Said De Tocque-
vile: Populations naowe westward as
IL driven by the mighty hand
of God" Says the United States surveyor
! general: sThe proportion of swaste land in
the Territory of Dakota is less than in anv
state or territory of the Unian:s' Said Sen
ator Wade: 3By the year 1900 every acre Of
good agricultural land in the United States
will be worth $50 an acre. 1t will soon be
beyond the reach of the poor Says Dr.
i Strong: aThe worlds scepter passed from
Persia to Greece, from Greece to Italy, from
/, Italy to Great Britain, an9 from Great
Britain the scepter is to-day departing. It
is sppassing on to Greater BRITAIN. to our
ulnigg hty West there to remain, for there is
no further West; beyond is the Orien5 Like
1 the star in the East which guided the three